Information Graphics, Photos and Images

Designing Data Visualizations

Robert Cooper • 6 years ago

Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear decision-making process to encode your information visually.

Delve into different kinds of visualization, including infographics and visual art, and explore the influences at work in each one. Then learn how to apply these concepts to your design process.

O’Reilly ruined this book The goals of this volume are completely undermined by the publisher’s choice to print greyscale figures. Entire sections on color and color selection are rendered useless because of this. There is no excuse, in 2011, to print a data visualization book (or any other book, for that matter) in greyscale and B&W. O’Reilly should know better.

Too bad … I am very disappointed by this book.It deals with graphics and design, including colors … but it is printed in black and white!Very useful to judge the “good” or “wrong” color of any logo or diagram (p. 36) …In addition, the print quality is poor: some diagrams are illegible (p. 44, 46).